We live in a very mobile world. Everyone is in a hurry to get somewhere.

Throughout Scripture, God often taught people the greatest lessons along the journey.

Today, we continue with Scott Pauli, our study through the great journeys of the Bible.

Our prayer is that you will rediscover the adventure of walking with God.

There's perhaps nothing more frustrating and traveling than finding out after you've gone a long

distance that all the while you've been going the wrong direction and how much worse to do it

intentionally. We've come now in our study of the great journeys of the Bible to Jonah's journey.

Jonah chapter 1 verse 1. The Bible says,

Now the word of the Lord came into Jonah, the son of Amatai saying, arise, go to

Nineveh that great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.

So Jonah rose up and did exactly what God told him to do.

No, that's not how the story ends.

In fact, it says in verse three, but Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshis from the presence of the

Lord and went down to Joppa and he found a ship going to Tarshis. So he paid the fare thereof and

went down into it to go with them into Tarsius from the presence of the Lord.

Now, let me just tell you right at the onset.

This is not geographical.

This is spiritual.

Somebody said, he didn't go to Nineveh.

He went to Tarsius.

Actually, he didn't go to the will of God.

He went away from the presence of the Lord the

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